No_47:I think they're both derivative of the 50s' idealistic society. Yes the little cartoony guys look a lot alike, but they're both based on a time when those little cartoony guys were in everything, and all looked the same.

Well, that's a given. My point was that Fallout was the first game to reference it, Bioshock followed suit, Fallout 3 followed the design of the first two games, and now a bunch of clueless critics apparently believe Fallout 3 is aping Bioshock.

Anybody know of a good mouse for a laptop?Sounds like a simple question, I have 3 already.

1: A wired cheap one, the scroll wheel goes up when you try and scroll down, and is generally not useful2: Microsoft wireless, says 1054 on the back. Got one of them left and right scroll things on the middle button, and thus the middle click doesn't work for shiat.3: Logitech, wireless laser. Dunno the model, doesn't say, but not a cheap one. Best of the bunch, but now seems to double click when I single click more often than not.

Since they package them up in that plastic packaging that requires sharp instruments to get in, you can't really try before you buy.

Is there a piece of software, other than in the BIOS, native to XP Pro or a trusted free software, which will give me the temp of my processor and such?

I have been looking here and there for a long ass time for a temperature gauge for my computer, but can't find any which use a red LCD/LED read out instead of a blue one. I figure my only choice at this point is software. I have six 120mm fans in this case and I'm thinking about ditching some of them because my computer sounds like a lawnmower.

Well, installed speedfan and above is what I got. My machine had been on for about 45 minutes, nothing but internet browsing.

I have a GeForce 8800 GT(X?) 320mb card. 55 is pretty hot eh? Particularly when I haven't been playing games...

I have 1x 120mm fan bringing in air on the front, 2x 120mm fans in the top exhausting, 1x 120 mm fan in the back exhausting, and 2x 120mm fans on the side, exhausting. I am using the stock Intel Cooler on the processor, stock fan on the vid card, and my PSU is a thermaltake toughpower which has a single 140mm fan, which I think may be a problem because it blows straight upward into the case.

TehNacho:Well, installed speedfan and above is what I got. My machine had been on for about 45 minutes, nothing but internet browsing.

I have a GeForce 8800 GT(X?) 320mb card. 55 is pretty hot eh? Particularly when I haven't been playing games...

I have 1x 120mm fan bringing in air on the front, 2x 120mm fans in the top exhausting, 1x 120 mm fan in the back exhausting, and 2x 120mm fans on the side, exhausting. I am using the stock Intel Cooler on the processor, stock fan on the vid card, and my PSU is a thermaltake toughpower which has a single 140mm fan, which I think may be a problem because it blows straight upward into the case.

Thoughts on what I ought to do?

That all looks perfectly normal. GPUs get extremely hot. Don't worry about it if it isn't causing a problem.

TehNachoI have a GeForce 8800 GT(X?) 320mb card. 55 is pretty hot eh? Particularly when I haven't been playing games...

For comparison: I have a 7600GS without a fan idling around and Nvidia's xserver-settings tool says it's at 49°C at the moment.The other piece of (thermal related) information the tool gives is something called the "Slowdown Threshold" being at 120°C..

crunchief:obviously not a geek: is there a way to hook up a camera phone to your pc direct to download pictures/video or do you have to send via email to your pc? any thoughts are appreciated

Depends on the phone. Some come with USB cables, Bluetooth, or both that may allow you to do this. Other have SD or memory stick cards that you can just pop out and stick into your computer or card reader. Basically, it's all over the map and depends on what you have, so your best bet is to Google your phone and/or see what the manual says.

So I FTP stuff from my eeepc to my Mac Mini... I have a new router and tried doing it over the wireless and it was extremely slow, around 90 kilobytes a second. Signal is good and internet access over the wireless is fast. On my old gear, with the wired connection I could FTP and about 11 megabytes a second. It's a 100Mbit router.

Any ideas? (apart from trying a cable and seeing if it's still slow - I'm getting me a 20m cable later)

No_47:So I FTP stuff from my eeepc to my Mac Mini... I have a new router and tried doing it over the wireless and it was extremely slow, around 90 kilobytes a second. Signal is good and internet access over the wireless is fast. On my old gear, with the wired connection I could FTP and about 11 megabytes a second. It's a 100Mbit router.

Any ideas? (apart from trying a cable and seeing if it's still slow - I'm getting me a 20m cable later)

Is this a wireless G router? Theoretical throughput on 54G is 27.3Mpbs. If both clients are wirelss you can chop that in half so you're looking at 13.5Mbps in each direction-theoretically. Throw in some collisions and renegotionation and you've got your sloowww speed.

Fenis-Wolf:O'Reilly (new window) disagrees. 54G is 54 (that's exactly what I just said. are you drinking? ) megaBIT per second-at the very best you will get 6.75 megaBYTES over 54G. Assuming one way traffic and no collisions as I said.

that's exactly what I just said, and not what you said at all. You said it's 27.3 megabits per second (Mbps).

and I'm getting 90 KILOBYTES per second (KBps), which is about 0.1 Megabytes per second (MBps).

I said I should be getting between 4 and 6 Megabytes (MBps) per second.

O'Reilly agrees exactly with what I said, and now I don't think you know what you're talking about. You most certainly don't need to half the bandwidth if both clients are wireless, either. Do you know the different between MB and Mb?

They've got better customer service than newegg in my opinion. Newegg is all "well, we'll take care of you this ONE time" but TD is all "our bad, we'll fix everything for you, and anything else it takes to keep your business."

One monitor was DOA, but Tiger replaced it and covered the extra shipping charge. I was happy.

Haven't even gotten the stuff yet. They took down the order wrong, didn't put in my shipping address (different than billing), screwed up my name which was spelled out for them three times, credit card didn't work because it didn't match my incorrectly spelled name, appear to be shipping to wrong address although no one there is sure where to. Dropped call, and a couple days of an IVR not picking up. I had called before the order was processed to make sure the shipping address was my workplace, but different web sites report different things. So I expect something within the next couple days, but I'm not sure where. At this point all the parts should be the expected parts. We'll see.

Along with other more minor issues.

Man, I've worked in tech support and customer services, so I've been very polite and cool and all to this point, but I'm about to farking lose it. I emailed to ensure at least the one backordered hard drive would be sent to my correct address, but I am getting the runaround, vague answers, and basically "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that".

Can a apache / linux admin tell who (what IP and when) accessed a page, even if this page has no tracking code on it? Maybe some log of some kind thats kept automatically for every visitor on every page? Is there a setting for this?

nosajghoulCan a apache / linux admin tell who (what IP and when) accessed a page, even if this page has no tracking code on it?

Yes.

Maybe some log of some kind thats kept automatically for every visitor on every page?Yes.

Is there a setting for this?Yes.

It's done via the apache config and it's usually enabled as a default, so if you don't want to log the IP addresses, you usually have to change the values.The log files itself are usually somewhere under /var/log/, e.g. /var/log/httpd/ or /var/log/apache.

There are also programs to analyze apache log files, for example lots of web hosters use "webalizer" so their customers can get a few stats about the visitors their website had.

Thanks Benny and V o' D. Now that I've finally updated my site, I have one last question:

Google is still linking to obsolete pages that I've removed. I've read that I can train robots to prevent search engines from linking to my site, but I do I arrange them to stop the search engines from linking to particular pages? (Hints on how to get my main page to the top of the search engine results for searches on my name are also appreciated.)

N. S. Radieaux:I've read that I can train robots to prevent search engines from linking to my site, but I do I arrange them to stop the search engines from linking to particular pages? (Hints on how to get my main page to the top of the search engine results for searches on my name are also appreciated.)

Google "robots.txt" and you'll find information on how to set up a proper file. Note that bots are supposed to follow those rules but that doesn't necessarily mean they will.

You can also Google for "search engine optimization" and read more than you'll ever want to know about SEO. Google has a section of their site discussing that topic.